English @ SUNY Geneseo | sara munjack | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sarabella217/activity/ Activity feed for sara munjack. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4f814fb123958285c355d379f3a2af41 sara munjack wrote a new blog post Form as "credible work" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6494/ Wed, 11 May 2016 21:04:09 -0500 It just so happens that focus on form in this course was applicable to me in another—Marxist Milton. In this course we looked at John Milton through the lens of Karl Marx and his idea of productive work. I ended u […]

]]> 0 742bdc49b665fd384664a2edae17648f sara munjack wrote a new blog post what is poetry? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6260/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:30:35 -0500 To reiterate: “I hate this question”—me in class last week.

Because I’ve taken a class or two each semester that consists of studying and synthesizing poetry from a literary point of view this question has r […]

]]> 0 5d40d577b495e32f738f97541db688d4 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=950 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:18:34 -0500 Something that workshop does is help me to isolate what exactly turns me on or off in a poem. **HOWEVER, I often find a very annoying and peculiar phenomena occurring during class. It is difficult for me to […]

]]> 01d8a9b9e55e65f232be5ec3f923b855 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=909 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:06:25 -0500 Something I’ve recently started to get into is making zines. Zines are the perfect little multimedia projects I’ve been searching for. Short for “magazine”, they are tiny little DIY self-publications. They are […]

]]> 166c4e0006abaa1626e192908b2a57b6 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=868 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:29:50 -0500 Upon reading Szirtes, I was startled to realize that form doesn’t even cross my mind when I write a poem. I think I can mostly owe this to the fact that I rarely ever sit down and write a poem all at once. A p […]

]]> 51a8770b990ac5b40b395bdc6f33e042 sara munjack joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5137/ Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:49:02 -0500 0 959b2fb36be7e37170d4e8240092a31f sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=593 Wed, 06 May 2015 17:51:36 -0500 One of the techniques I use when I write poetry is finding random lines that I’ve written scattered in various notebooks, napkins, receipts, etc. and put them all in a hodge-podge on one page and then work with […]

]]> d52187e65a9e8bf7b128cdf41d783257 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=591 Wed, 06 May 2015 17:15:26 -0500 Hey guys I just wanted to share a little bit from my poetic statement and I was wondering if what you guys thought:

“Poetry exists outside the bounds of time. Prose’s linearity hinders it from existing as the […]

]]> 2345926f15d107c52ab3b0ac6a22d443 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=583 Tue, 05 May 2015 18:50:14 -0500 For me, poetry has always beens very closely linked with music. I know it may be limiting myself, but I very rarely can write without listening to music simultaneously. This is true for practically all writing […]

]]> 27536340b7e78da777130fc902b86692 sara munjack commented on the post, Are we "poets" yet?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/are-we-poets-yet/#comment-4900 Tue, 05 May 2015 18:14:50 -0500 Interesting thought—I’m not sure if I can really call myself a “poet” yet, either. I think about this in reference to calling myself a musician, as well. I’ve been playing guitar for some years and I’ve been […]

]]> f990cfac29b56bb19d8da2b4d245ce9a sara munjack commented on the post, Stuck in Revision, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/03/stuck-in-revision/#comment-4899 Tue, 05 May 2015 17:35:13 -0500 Revision always gets tricky for me because I have trouble parting ways with little things that I get too initially attached to, and then I get stuck trying to shift things around and truly make drastic changes. […]

]]> a2bb5c736904cde625157bfb2613237b sara munjack commented on the post, Who are your favorite poets? From the past or the present, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/who-are-your-favorite-poets-from-the-past-or-the-present/#comment-4867 Mon, 04 May 2015 23:40:09 -0500 Ok so I don’t know if I’m allowed to say Bob Dylan…but his lyrics are some of the most beautiful poems I have ever heard. Many of his songs have inspired me so much to write my own poetry. Particularly the song […]

]]> eb3eed613e7556d198ea874e7dc417f4 sara munjack commented on the post, Swearing in Poems?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/03/swearing-in-poems/#comment-4866 Mon, 04 May 2015 23:19:04 -0500 It’s interesting because I always end up editing out curses in my poetry. For me, curses are very heat-of-the-moment and when I’m writing poetry, it usually happens all at once, I’ll get a whole poem done in about […]

]]> 3cac69afbea8e4acf52b52abbcf87621 sara munjack commented on the post, When will poetry die?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/when-will-poetry-die/#comment-4865 Mon, 04 May 2015 23:00:16 -0500 woah Diego, this post was pretty far out there. However, I *highly* enjoyed reading it! It’s hard to imagine poetry dying. Well, it’s hard to imagine anything dying out really—nothing really seems so finite. I […]

]]> 800f0e3706e26d116e52505b55240ab0 sara munjack commented on the post, King Kendrick, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/king-kendrick/#comment-4863 Mon, 04 May 2015 22:25:40 -0500 Hey J!

I actually recently just got into Kendrick and I was talking to someone about his poetic vibe recently. The first song I ever heard of his was “Poe Man’s Dream” off of Section 8 and he tells a great […]

]]> edb1d94243cc2c530684f5bb02c83d67 sara munjack commented on the post, The Feminist in Me Says The Personal is Political, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/16/the-feminist-in-me-says-the-personal-is-political/#comment-4690 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:07:19 -0500 After reading this post and it’s following comments, I started to think about artistic intent. How much do we let the artist’s intent affect our understanding and enjoyment of a piece (whether it be a poem, a […]

]]> 7b92ae7cc9b71673ba49a6c328c2ee22 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=531 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:36:52 -0500 Something I have always wanted to try is to write a poem with the poetic statement in mind. (I guess this means first I have to fully form the poetic statement that I have in mind.) I think that knowing where I’m […]

]]> 73cac29a7558ea0e126f95ae205a1f68 sara munjack commented on the post, Someday My Prince Will Come And Rub Ointment On My Gills Because I'm Itchy, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/20/someday-my-prince-will-come-and-rub-ointment-on-my-gills-because-im-itchy/#comment-4624 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 03:59:43 -0500 Diego, I ADORE Bill Evans!!! I find jazz to be super stimulating when it comes to writing poetry.

Interestingly enough, I also find that electronic music is super motivating for me. (Which I know is odd […]

]]> 003207e3480c56238a748ca59a267bc7 sara munjack commented on the post, Piecing Together a Poem, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/23/piecing-together-a-poem/#comment-3694 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:50:25 -0500 It’s funny because I have a really similar process for writing my poetry! Usually what will happen is me leafing through my notebook and stringing a bunch of lines together that seem that they may fit and maybe […]

]]> b5b1c13f864a182f4c96286e03ce3d09 sara munjack wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=424 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:35:57 -0500 I’ve always struggled to take poetry too seriously. Poetry has always been something that I’ve derived great joy from reading and writing but also despised. The poet has always been a very enigmatic figure to me […]

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